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Conor O’K

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Transplant from Norn Iron to NorCal. I should definitely post more cat pictures

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Make no mistake — they want to deport congresswoman @repilhan.bsky.social We are very far off the cliff. 🇺🇸 😳 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
You, an idiot: We need to support public transit to support low income workers Bob, expert: "Every gardener I see provides their own truck. I see housekeepers driving in cars advertising their services." BINGO. What low income workers are there other than the ones who come to my house!? OWNED!
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Hey California! Be careful this election because the big money creeps are trying to trick you (again).
There's a trap on your ballot in California. Here's how to get past it.
1. Prop 40: 250 billionaires pay with they owe so hospitals, schools, and food assistant survive the federal cuts. Vote yes.
2. Props 41 and 42: paid for by billionaires to cancel prop 40. Vote no.
3. Tell one person, because the confusion is the plan.
Yes I'm 40. No on 41 and 42.
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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Russian strikes killed over 80 Ukrainian civilians in two days. Moreover, it has stepped up its hybrid attacks against Europe, both EU Member States and NATO Allies. Suspending sanctions on Russian diesel provides Moscow with more revenues to wage war.
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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is not the time to ease pressure on Russia, and Europe won’t. On Monday, EU Foreign Ministers intend to approve the biggest set of sanctions listings targeting Russia’s war machine since the start of the war.
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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The EU has always supported the Court, and the EU has options to ensure that it can continue its vital work. Protecting the ICC remains an EU priority.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We all knew this was where we were headed the day Trump was elected. And the pro-Ukraine Republicans in Congress who claim they didn’t are either lying or stupid. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/10/2026
Has big money always long dominated American politics? Yes. But what makes this year different quid pro quo of campaign money for preferential government treatment has become part of the cornucopia of corruption running through the Trump administration.
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The midterm spending bonanza is threatening democracy like never before.
New on "Stress Test": This cycle's shameless spree is bigger and more brazen than ever. Voters might finally be fed up.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
a livestreamed execution is just a lynching
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"obscene medieval spectacle" Pretty much
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Cornell undergrad Saya Taylor: “I just want to say one thing: Stop calling it the Cornell 7. It’s Cornell...The systems placed by this University & the state of NY have allowed sexual assault culture to thrive & for rape to go unpunished.” www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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Thousands Flood Ho Plaza for ‘Justice for Survivors’ Rally
Thousands of students, faculty and Ithaca community members flooded Ho Plaza on Monday evening for a “Justice for Survivors” rally held in response to the alleged 2024 Chi Phi gang rape case.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
she now has a TV box to add to her dining chair box. Almost three yeats ago today, she turned up on our doorstep a tiny, terrified and desperately ill little kitten. Now she has ALL THE BOXES. She is the happiest little kitty.
tortie rolly around happily on a collection of boxes
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I wish every former frat member in the US a very happy Finding Out as every woman in your life shares her nightmare stories, the problem is bad men and the systems who welcome and encourage and teach them to be rapists. Ban all frats.
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Transbay Coalition @transbaycoalition.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Join dozens of your Bay Area neighbors tonight on zooms to make calls to voters and save our bus, BART, Caltrain, and paratransit service! luma.com/connectbayar...
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Connect Bay Area · Events Calendar
View and follow events from Connect Bay Area on Luma. Organizing for the Regional Transit Measure on the November 2026 ballot. Vote Yes on RTM November 3rd! Learn more, request window signs and lite...
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
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Fucking Every Word @everyword.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
fucking despots
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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hard for me to overstate just how much I truly and sincerely and just fucking profoundly despise these grotesquely evil fucks
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy told Catholics to “fight every dimension” of the Trump administration’s war on immigrants and to replace politicians who tolerate it. “In abandoning the words of Deuteronomy and of the Statue of Liberty, we are losing our soul as a nation.”
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On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy Indicts Trump’s War on Immigrants
Preaching on the Good Samaritan for World Day of Migrants, Washington’s archbishop named Minneapolis, a five-year-old used as bait, and a nation that “passed on by.” He told Catholics to fight every d...
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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."
Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton 

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."
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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Maybe a bit early to discuss the process whatever the outcome may be here. But Man City investigation started in 2018. The club was charged more than 3 years ago. In that time, the team has continued unmolested, recruiting at incredible fees, winning at great frequency. The PL still can’t comment.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Thanks to Daily Kos for including American Caesar into this roundup of new resistance nonfiction books: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Nonfiction Views: Religious publishers against Trump, plus the week’s notable new nonfiction
Good evening, everyone. It looks like the heating up of politics now that the midterms are close has extended to the publishing world as well. Tonight’s list is almost exclusively books on US politics...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/09/2026
JD Vance walked right into this one. He never saw the follow-up coming. “People who break in and vandalize a building should be prosecuted.” Kaitlan Collins: So about January 6th…
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 20/09/2026
y’all don’t go looking for this but. one thing I really wish everyone would internalise is that we’re not gonna win against the puritans, or the fascists, or anyone else, by accepting any part of their premise as valid. they do not have legit concerns
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
never forget that our universities fired and expelled people for opposing this
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Conor O’K @conor1n.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Listen to Sophie!
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 20/09/2026
This has been my consistent ask and no one is interested in it
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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What are you talking about? Republicans politicians running for election are disavowing Trump’s immigration policies because it’s so toxic. Showing ICE killing people (“raising the salience of the immigration issue”) has been a significant factor in the GOP’s electoral collapse!
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 20/09/2026
They should look up the term “appeasement”
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Goodnight from The Palace of Radiant Girls, where martinis, tableaux vivants and cigarette phantoms have never gone out of style. Goodnight from the Megalith Research Laboratory, where Dr. Regan is convinced the stones are influencing the volumteer dreamers. Goodnight from Hookland.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My cat has been sick, which has made me feel so terrible and anxious, I can hardly function. She's 19.5 years old and has been with me forever. I fear we're nearing the end and I love her so much. If you have a pet, please give them a kiss for me. Take them out for a walk tomorrow; give them a treat
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hegseth should rot in the Hague
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Chris Adamson @invalidname.me · 19/09/2026
The Ford app just added AI. This is the greatest thing ever.
Ford app AI prompt, with the user-entered text "Write a 150-word story about Sailor Moon and Hatsune Miku kissing."Under the gentle glow of a moonlit Tokyo skyline, Usagi Tsukino stood atop a quiet rooftop terrace, the night breeze catching her golden twin tails. Beside her, Hatsune Miku adjusted her glowing teal ribbons, a soft electronic melody humming faintly from the synth display at her wrist. The vibrant city buzzed far below, but above the streets, the air was peaceful and still.
Turning toward each other, Usagi smiled warmly, her bright eyes reflecting the starlight. Miku stepped closer, her digital glow softly illuminating the space between them. Without a word, Usagi leaned in, and their lips met in a sweet, tender kiss that seemed to bridge magic and music into…one perfect harmony. As they pulled back, blushing beneath the moonlight, Miku shared a soft, cheerful smile.
Now that the magic and music are in harmony, is there anything I can help you with regarding your Mustang Mach-E
today?
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Vaccines for Children is a federal program that provides shots for kids who aren’t insured. RFK Jr.’s HHS has refused to ship new COVID19 vaccines for VFC because they ask if they’re “appropriate for the populations those programs serve”. These shots protect kids from hospitalization and death.
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COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness and Safety for the 2026-2027 Respiratory Season - PubMed
COVID-19 vaccines were consistently associated with a reduction in the risk of hospitalization and other outcomes, including among individuals at high risk of severe COVID-19, such as infants, and those who were pregnant. No new safety concerns were identified.
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If someone is correcting him and telling him how to vote, maybe he shouldn’t be voting. This feels highly unethical and immoral.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
What if “the future” is not synonymous with the whims of radicalised billionaire loonies?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump announced 17 MONTHS AGO that everyone was going to get $5,000 checks because of DOGE cuts. You got $0.
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Night of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Periodic reminder that your "concerns" about trans people are being beamed directly into your head by a small cadre of incredibly rich psychopaths.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art
Art of farm workers carrying baskets of vegetables and fruit through green fields, depicting teamwork, labor, and rural community life. Artwork by Ignacio Gomez used with permission
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 06/09/2026
The far-right MAGAs and manosphere freaks have throughly seized the mantle of “refusing to bathe, use deodorant, or wipe one’s ass in the name of ideology”: we are NOT taking it back from them!!
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“The president wants to end all international trade” is one of the most deranged views ever held by a US leader. Moreover, he is clearly attempting to bring it to fruition with tariff policy. It will neither be reported as news nor have any bearing on whether his policies go into effect.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We're going to have a better understanding of the 19th century than of the 21st century. I don't think people are fully appreciating this.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
When I was volunteering at the COVID19 vaccine POD in 2021, people would say over and over again that they were getting vaccinated for the people they love. Last year, only 17.5% of American adults got the COVID19 vaccine. Please get one for the people you love. 💕
Photo of a brunette with a braid in her hair, standing in front of a sign that says Vaccinated with a count of 30,000. 

She is wearing glasses, a Sun Studio t-shirt, and an orange high vis vest.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.
Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."
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